Hands up: do you chuck rubbish out of your car window?

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My city is having its annual big litter picking weekend. Hundred of volunteers clearing their local areas and placing full bags near bins for the council to collect. It's fabulous😊.

My "picking" area tends to be heavy traffic and it's clear most of the litter is food and drink related and thrown from car windows when drivers are waiting at traffic lights.

I am quite interested to know who does this and why (someone must!). It's not dropped by accident and there will surely be an easy to use bin when you leave your car? Posted for traffic and the mix of opinions.

I tend to have a positive mind set when volunteering..no point getting too angry about litterers - I just hope one day, someone spots a windswept middle aged woman clearing the roads and decides to change their behaviour!

I never have, it's a horrible thing to do.

I was once driving behind a work van and witnessed the driver throw a load of rubbish out of the window once stopped at a traffic light. I memorized the email address on the back of the van and contacted the company to let them know as soon as I got home.

god no it's awful. i've actually shouted at someone who did this at traffic lights and he got out and picked it up 😂

Litter is such a depressing and unnecessary sight - another here who cannot comprehend why people do this, and picks up after the scum that drops it.

Only biodegradable items - usually fruit cores. I think the squirrels probably enjoy them. Paper, plastic, glass or cans - never.

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Of course not, other than apple cores or sandwich crusts that will biodegrade

Never, ever. Just hate litter, and even more, fly tipping. I would happily take photos and send to Council.

I don't think anybody who does it will admit to it because they're rightly considered as pariahs, it's horrible behaviour.

I was in services once, saw a woman in a car open her window and drop a bag of presumably food/takeaway rubbish on the floor. If she would have got out of the car she would have had a 10yd walk to the nearest bin. I made the mistake of going over to her to say something about it and she called me a 'whore'. I don't think I'd bother challenging again.

Some people are just scum.

We were on holiday last year in the UK and couldn't believe the grass margins on the motorway s and how.much rubbish had collected there

Nice one! 😆

No way. Would not dream of it. Car like a skip on wheels

No, I never have.

I would never do this. It seems like such a selfish and lazy thing to do. I can’t think of any excuse for it.

It’s the same people. It only needs a small number to do it frequently.

I have shouted at people who do this in central London. Always men in my experience. I get abuse back eg ‘suck my dick’ and they don’t do anything. But at least I tell them and then dispose of the litter. Depressing as hell

There is a McDonald’s in the retail park where we shop. Every time we go, there are little piles on wrappers/cups etc in the parking spaces where people have literally just open their car door and dropped it on the ground. I just can’t get my head around why someone would think that was ok. It makes me sad and angry.

I would never do that and I'm a local litter picker. Litter gives me the rage- especially people who throw litter so far into a thorn bush that litter pickers cannot reach it.

No, never my car interior pays the price..but I'd never consider it

I saw a guy park up in a lay-by and just throw out half a dozen drink bottles and countless sweet wrappers and packets and drive off. I was horrified. Went up to the closest house and asked for a carrier bag and if I could use their dustbin.

Anyone who does this is a fucking scumbag.

No I do not. To do so is the mark of a total shit.

I find that no one admits to it but many people must be doing it given the amount of litter around here is horrific. Country lanes, town centre, dual carriageways, centre of the roundabouts, when I look out the car window it can be ankle deep. Lots of takeout packages, cans. Makes me really angry.

No. People do litter picks on the verges of national speed limit roads which means they're putting themselves at risk because people won't keep the litter in their car/van/lorry til they're at home or at a bin.

I've spat cherry pips out and lobbed the odd apple core, but only if I've not had anything suitable to put those in and only in rural areas.

Pretty rare occurrence that I have fruit I'd think suitable to do that with (wouldn't whizz out banana skins or tangerine peel for example, nothings eating that and they take a while to rot down), nothing to put the rubbish in within the car AND be on a rural route.

My sister does it though, cardboard or paper waste, it's been the cause of many a row and she now doesn't DARE do it if driving my car/with me in the car but I'll bet she still does it at other times. Utterly disgusting.

She knows its awful, she just doesn't want it in her car and does it where she thinks she will get away with it. Her only justification is 'other people do it' which I can't fathom out as any sort of justification!

Absolutely never. Neither does young adult DC, his car is full of rubbish. A friend of his once chucked litter on the road outside our house, we made him pick it up. Also DH was once exiting a carpark where the car in front was waiting to pull out. They opened their windows and chucked ice lolly wrappers out & DH beeped, shouted at them and told them to pick it up. He got abuse back.

I can’t understand the mentality of people who do this. They’re littering their own area, why are they happy to live in it like this?